Edmund held an 12-min opening service game, sped out to 5-0 in the next 20 minutes, then it turned into a bit of a struggle but he got it done 6-3. Long way to go though and Goffin's got his teeth into it now.
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 13:28 (eight years ago) link
tempted to watch the next rubber because if you squint Bemelmans looks like Justine Henin.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Friday, 27 November 2015 13:39 (eight years ago) link
oof @ Goffin freezing up even more
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 13:46 (eight years ago) link
hands over double break with terrible DF
― lex pretend, Friday, November 27, 2015 1:46 PM (7 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
repeat down set point ://///
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 13:54 (eight years ago) link
lmao @ the cut-away to Clijsters in the crowd looking absolutely disgusted
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 14:00 (eight years ago) link
Goodness. I came back in here to retract my statement above because I thought Edmund was up against Bemelmans. Didn't think he would trouble Goffin.
Goffin now a break up in set three.
― Michael Jones, Friday, 27 November 2015 14:14 (eight years ago) link
I've only seen two games (the last two games) but I'd be amazed if Edmund does any better than 2-6 in the decider. :/
― Michael Jones, Friday, 27 November 2015 15:05 (eight years ago) link
seemed like Edmund got a bit sloppy at the start of the third and Goffin seized his chance, and now he's finally stopped choking is just out-manoeuvring Edmund...
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 15:16 (eight years ago) link
I've seen lots of comebacks but so rarely such a 180 from "frozen and terrified on court" to "free-flowing and confident"
― lex pretend, Friday, 27 November 2015 15:33 (eight years ago) link
Murray really lucky not to be broken there...
― lex pretend, Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:34 (eight years ago) link
Goffin flopping => Murray has woken up now
― lex pretend, Sunday, 29 November 2015 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Won it.
― Otago Imago (Tom D.), Sunday, 29 November 2015 15:09 (eight years ago) link
It is extremely surreal that GBR have won the Davis Cup. Like actually won, not just won a play-off
― lex pretend, Sunday, 29 November 2015 17:49 (eight years ago) link
Five years ago they were losing to Lithuania (hats off to Laurynas Grigelis) and facing Turkey in a relegation play-off to drop to the four tier (which would have meant a round-robin in Macedonia the follow spring vs Albania and Norway - I can't imagine Murray returning to the fold for that).
The road back has been that long and would have stopped in March if it hadn't been for James Ward, beating Isner 15-13 in the 5th in Glasgow (though Inglot/Murray J ran the Bryans close).
Hell of a final point.
― Michael Jones, Sunday, 29 November 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Ivanovic losing to Naomi Broady is the first hilarious result of 2016. Ivanovic lost the first set with two consecutive DFs (three total in that game) and down MP ballooned a sitter FH wide. Dealing with pressure as well as ever then.
Great win for Daria Kasatkina over Venus, she's going to be really good.
Halep, Sharapova and Serena all w/d from their first matches rmde
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
ffs @ halep robbing us of the azarenka match-up, she's so cowardly & basic
ana's fh on MP was so perf <3
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 11:55 (eight years ago) link
kvitova retires too
gr8 start to the year every1
― uberweiss, Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:06 (eight years ago) link
What is wrong with them all, this is week one when they're all supposed to be fresh ffs
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:48 (eight years ago) link
5:58
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PMlmCcZoi-M
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Tuesday, 5 January 2016 12:50 (eight years ago) link
i'm enjoying this paszek renaissance
also lol @ bouchard
― groovemaaan, Thursday, 7 January 2016 07:51 (eight years ago) link
So, Broady falls to Stephens but that's her best week on the WTA tour since Quebec City in September. And didn't she try and get Ostapenko (who beat her in the Quebec semi) defaulted in the last sixteen in Auckland? She chucked a racket and it hit a ball boy. Broady eventually won from mp down.
Don't follow the tour much so those highlights are the first I've seen of her since she lost to Woziancki at Wimbledon. Backhand is something fierce now.
― Michael Jones, Thursday, 7 January 2016 12:57 (eight years ago) link
The Broady/Ostapenko drama was hilarious. Don't think either of them came out of it well. Ostapenko seems pretty bratty (and has form even in her short WTA career, her Québec runner-up speech last year must have set a record for shortest acceptance speech of all time - it was literally "I'm upset I played so badly, thanks to the sponsors [mic drop]") and was lucky not to be DQed (though it's not like she chucked her racquet particularly hard or angrily), but omgggg Broady's desperation. Never seen an opponent campaign to the point of tears to try to win like that since Ramos Vinolas against Kyrgios last year in Estoril. Broady and Ramos were both technically right but it's probably worse behaviour than just an immature racquet toss. Funny how they kept going at it afterwards too. Broady didn't cover herself in glory on Twitter afterwards either.
Also I swear literally every single time there's drama or beef involving any other tennis players, Cornet ALWAYS pipes up.
Sam Crawford finally getting it together, huge huge power game but she's inexplicably spent three years fucking around in US ITFs.
Wouldn't it be something if Paszek could play consistently well for an entire year. Her BH is so pretty and smooth.
The WTA #s 1, 2, 3, 4 and 6 all withdrew or retired from their first match of the year, well DONE everyone. What's the betting they're all miraculously risen from their deathbeds for the AO.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Thursday, 7 January 2016 13:24 (eight years ago) link
Ugh, as much as I love tennis in my timezone, watching (male) commentators doing the whole Asexual (Though Possibly Sexual) Man Love thing for Jack Sock of all people is... please stop. I mean, at least Roddick back in the day was smashable.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Thursday, 7 January 2016 13:48 (eight years ago) link
Wozniacki can't even beat her pigeon to make a MM final these days:
https://twitter.com/Dimonator/status/685587570923802626
Azarenka/Kerber was pretty great until 3-3 and then Kerber completely fell apart, totally scrambled tactically.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 9 January 2016 11:34 (eight years ago) link
Didn't get home in time but 61 62 is a DELICIOUS scoreline for Djokovic to finally take the h2h lead over Nadal
Coric is the first teenager in an ATP final for eight years, I knew about the drought of young talent but even so that surprises me!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 9 January 2016 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Azarenka is going to win the AO isn't she
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 09:48 (eight years ago) link
Not sure a title run that went Q, LL, Vinci, Q, Kerber really institutes anyone as Slam favourite (nb I don't believe any of the others are exactly on their deathbeds)
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 09:57 (eight years ago) link
Makarova just slipped on a beetle
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 13 January 2016 10:08 (eight years ago) link
berrer/zverev is a nice contrast of styles rn
― johnny crunch, Friday, 5 February 2016 15:06 (eight years ago) link
Um, Russia have lost the first 3 rubbers in Fed Cup to the Netherlands. Sharapova is playing... in doubles? Nice dead rubber to keep her eligible for Rio, that. Kuznetsova is now losing to Hogenkamp and Bertens for fun these days.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 7 February 2016 10:35 (eight years ago) link
pretty interesting match between Taylor Fritz and Michael Mmoh in Memphis last night. First time I'd seen Mmoh play, I really like his strokes and his defence was pretty amazing against Fritz absolutely whaling on every stroke. Fritz's power just too much though. A bit surprised Fritz's serve wasn't the weapon I've remembered it being before, or maybe Mmoh can just read it well.
The latest instalment in the tragicomedy that is Donna Vekic's career: losing to Sevastova from 4-0 up in the third set in Kaohsiung.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 10 February 2016 09:36 (eight years ago) link
coric/monfils is p entertaining
coric's fitness level seems v solid hes waay behind the baseline sprinting side to side and getting balls back...is still not gonna be enough unless gael falls apart but still..
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 10 February 2016 22:22 (eight years ago) link
watching thiem-nadal, it's really startling to see the rafa decline in real time. so many forehand shanks for what used to be such a reliable shot, and he doesn't have a clue how to change it. seeing your best weapon disintegrate like this must be terrifying for a player.
― groovemaaan, Saturday, 13 February 2016 18:47 (eight years ago) link
fritz into the mem final; good effort by berankis there too
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 14 February 2016 00:10 (eight years ago) link
only saw the middle set of Thiem/Nadal, it's getting to the stage where that would have been a bad loss for Thiem - even in that set he was bullying Rafa on most points.
Fritz's game and personality don't appeal to me but he's scary good tbh. Def overtaken Rublev, who's had some really disappointing losses this year, among the 1997 generation.
Bencic/Kasatkina was fun, first pro meeting of erstwhile junior peers. Bencic becomes the first teenager in the WTA top 10 since 2009 (er, Wozniacki). Vinci/Ivanovic was also hilarious, as expected.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 14 February 2016 09:09 (eight years ago) link
lol @ isners latin american results
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 February 2016 02:15 (eight years ago) link
Errani AVENGING that golden set Shvedova dropped on her four years ago in style, 63 60.
Halep is such a bad player these days. She makes so many bad decisions on court and makes so many routine errors and it's like...not doing those things was literally the only special thing about your game, you're literally left with fuck all.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 18:42 (eight years ago) link
Fitting that this historic WTA feat of all the seeds in a tournament going 0-8 in their first matches should be sealed by Shitra managing to lose to Brengle after bagelling her in 19 minutes
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 23:07 (eight years ago) link
On the plus side, Vinci breaks the top 10 at the age of 32!
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Wednesday, 17 February 2016 23:09 (eight years ago) link
Haven't seen any of Delpo's matches this week but great to see some pretty easy scores and a deep run off the bat - final vs Dimitrov upcoming? Thiem/Nadal rematch in the Rio final looks likely too! Kyrgios trashing Gasquet 60 64, lol, maybe he'll make the Berdych match more interesting this time - Berdych was lucky to escape Zverev in R2.
Legit looking forward to the Strycova/Errani final in Dubai more than any other big final in ages. I think Errani might actually be my favourite WTA player right now. A true inspiration to those of us who can't serve to save our lives.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 20 February 2016 07:49 (eight years ago) link
ive watched some delpo - hes playing ok, not doing anything truly great but not that youd expect that, the results are mostly the effect of moving well and his opponents mostly not doing much, chardy in partic played terribly for a lot of that match
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 20 February 2016 14:55 (eight years ago) link
SARA ERRANI <33333
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Saturday, 20 February 2016 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Hahaha at Dimitrov losing to Rajeev Ram. He will never win a Slam. That rhymes, and is also true.
Just shows how when one guy is hoovering up ALL THE POINTS EVERYWHERE, the difference between being low top 10 low top 20 is not that much, and even at Dimitrov's peak ranking he was still a fair way behind the guys just above him.
Shame Del Potro will probably lose to a useless, dislikeable flake like Querrey here.
― oh, boy, .GIF! That's where I'm a Viking! (edwardo), Sunday, 21 February 2016 01:57 (eight years ago) link
lol so much if del ray final is raj ram v querrey
i feel happy for jan hernych apparently into a challenger final in poland after i saw him destroy his knee last summer in person
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:03 (eight years ago) link
cuevas/nadal has been.....interesting
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:30 (eight years ago) link
lol @ cuevas unable to not hit slam overheads rt to rafa
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:38 (eight years ago) link
2h 37m already & its going to the third ~~
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 February 2016 02:39 (eight years ago) link
vintage rafa for 1 pt there otherwise funny how this reminds me of his match almost a yr ago to the date, this is what nadal is now, its still entertaining tbh
rafa is def laboring v carreno busta rn
― johnny crunch, Thursday, February 19, 2015 6:58 PM (1 year ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 21 February 2016 03:07 (eight years ago) link
Haven't seen any of Delpo's matches this week but great to see some pretty easy scores and a deep run off the bat - final vs Dimitrov upcoming? Thiem/Nadal rematch in the Rio final looks likely too!
lmao @ how these assumptions turned out. Rafa can't even vulture the South American clay events any more, amazing. The Thiem loss might actually be weirder though.
Kyrgios played really well vs Berdych, he's been so much more disciplined this week than I've ever seen from him before.
― cher guevara (lex pretend), Sunday, 21 February 2016 09:38 (eight years ago) link